Exporting Digital Video And Frame-By-Frame Bitmaps - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-USING DIRECTOR Use Manual

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Director saves new versions of the selected movies with the same names and locations as the
original movies. This ensures that all links and references to other files continue to work
properly. Director copies the original movies to the folder you specified, re-creating their
original folder structure. If you didn't specify a folder for the original movies, Director prompts
you to select one.
Director adds the DCR extension to Shockwave content and the CCT extension to external
casts in the Shockwave format. Protected movies have the DXR extension, and protected casts
have the CXT extension.

Exporting digital video and frame-by-frame bitmaps

You can export all or part of a movie as a digital video. You can use this digital video in other
applications or import it back into Director. Any interactivity in the movie is lost when it is
exported as a digital video. You can also export a movie or a part of a movie as a series of bitmaps:
BMP in Windows, and PICT on the Macintosh.
You can export QuickTime digital video from either the Windows or the Macintosh version of
Director. QuickTime must be installed on the system to export as QuickTime (version 4 or later
is required for Windows; version 3 or later is required for Macintosh). You can export the AVI
(Audio-Video Interleaved) format only using the Windows version of Director. When you export
to AVI, all sounds are lost.
When Director exports animation as a video or bitmaps, it takes snapshots of the Stage moment
by moment and turns each snapshot into a frame in the video or a bitmap file. Sprites animated
solely by Lingo or JavaScript syntax are not exported.
When Director exports video or bitmaps, it always uses the entire Stage.
To export to digital video or bitmaps:
Select File > Export.
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The Export dialog box appears.
Select the range of frames you want from the Export options at the top of the dialog box:
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Current Frame
Selected Frames
All Frames exports all frames.
Frame Range
you enter in the Begin and End boxes.
If you select Selected Frames, All Frames, or Frame Range as the Export option, select one of
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the following options. These options do not work with digital video.
Every Frame
One in Every _ Frames
Frames with Markers
Frames with Artwork Changes in Channel
in the channel you specify in the box.
exports the current frame on the Stage. This is the default.
exports the selected frames in the Score.
exports only the range of frames that begin and end with the frame numbers
exports all frames in the selected range.
exports only the frames at the interval you specify in the box.
exports frames with markers set in the Score window.
exports frames only when a cast member changes
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